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50 Cards in this Set
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jargon
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shorthand for understanding
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myth
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sacred story
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canon
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official myths of religion
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religious studies
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academic field that is multi or inter disciplinary focused primarily on religious thoughts, expressions, and impacts
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social sciences
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try to understand what it means to be human in a scientific way
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etic perspective
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outsiders perspective/being objective
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empirical
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deals with facts (can be observed directly using one or more of the five senses)
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positivism
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testing relationships between facts
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hypothesis
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a guess or an idea
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philosophy
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understanding of how the world operates
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supernatural
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above, beyond, or outside of this world
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1860s
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when social science studies started
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emic
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subjective
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adaptive, maladaptive, neither
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advantage, disadvantage, neutral
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religious tradition
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A belief system that shares a common point of origin and a central dogma
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dogma
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belief that must be held to be a follower of that tradition
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realization
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a logical, rational conclusion
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enlightenment
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understanding or belief that comes from an external force
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awakening
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internal self-realization
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3 major religious traditions
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Abraham, India, Far East
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taxonomic
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ordering into groups on common shared similarities or out on differences
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Abraham
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Must believe in one God only. Niceq interpreted belief in Christ as part of God, realize truth of Nicean Creed.
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Catholic
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Baptist is a macro-sect of this religion. It split and the Heretics became Roman Catholics and Protestant is a sect of.
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Church
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acceptable religious belief to a society
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Cult
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unacceptable religious belief to a society
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Truth
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a matter of the individual
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Symbol
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shape create reinforce and altar truth which is ultimately philosophy
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World View
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philosophical underpinning of how the world should be
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explicit
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readily observable, easily recognizable by that society
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Implicit
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that which is underlying and supporting explicit
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Theological
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theistic/humanistic philosophy that asks "Is the natural world all there is to what we observe?"
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Secular
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Materialism asks the question, "Is the natural world all there is?"
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Hinduism
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Naturalistic
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Religion
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A subset of a religious tradition
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philosophy
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Basically dogma and doctrine
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Hinduism
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also called Santana Dharma (way of the dharma) based on the Vedas
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Shiva
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Great Destroyer, God of life, death, rebirth
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hedonistic
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enjoys all excesses
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ascetic
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Shiva as creator, protector allows us to transcend mortal to immortal world-stays away from excesses
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Hindi
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Greek word for India
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Indus River Valley
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laid out well, inorganic, complex society but no socio-economic or evidence of religion, but did seem to be a functioning civilization.
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Indo-Europeans
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conquered India, adapted to the people's beliefs
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Rishis
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Wise and righteous, religiously in tune with the supernatural
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Vedic
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Vedas, Sambitas (songs) They were divided into 4 groups: Rig, Yajun, Sama, Atharva
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Samsana, Dharma, Karma
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3 Hindu principles governing the Universe
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Vajur Vedas
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the actual ceremonies or offerings performed
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Rig Vedas
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where the basic dogma doctrine of Indian religion is laid out. Songs of God's, what is expected, how the universe is ordered
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Sama Vedas
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How the sacrifice is given, kind of alcoholic drink, songs to sing
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Atharva Vedas
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like a prayer book or day-to-day devotional
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Samsana
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Cycle of life, death, rebirth, repeats for every soul until it reaches enlightenment
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